| NOUN | food | puffer, blowfish, sea squab, pufferfish | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
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| animal | puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe |
| Sounds | pah'fer | |
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| Rhymes | aquifer ... zephyr / Zephyr: 60 rhymes with fer... | |
| Meaning | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. | |
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| Synonyms | blowfish, sea squab, pufferfish | |
| Part of | puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe |
| Narrower | fugu | A blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous |
| Broader | saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
| Substances | tetrodotoxin | A powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish |
| Meaning | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers. | |
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| Synonyms | pufferfish, blowfish, globefish | |
| Member of | Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae | puffers |
| Parts | blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
| Broader | plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
| Spanish | pez globo | |
| Verbs | puff | to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" |
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